Supportive peer relationships (SPR) are crucial for mental and physical health. Early
adolescence is an especially important period in which peer influence and school …

The aim of this scoping review was to map and summarise research relating to school and
teacher connectedness, in order to increase current understanding of the ways these terms …

Youth who feel connected to people and institutions in their communities may be buffered
from other risk factors in their lives. As a result, increasing connectedness has been …

Abstract The 21-item Intuitive Eating Scale (IES; Tylka, 2006) measures individuals'
tendency to follow their physical hunger and satiety cues when determining when, what, and …

Using a conceptual, non-mathematical approach, the updated Third Edition provides full
coverage of the wide range of multivariate topics that graduate students across the social …

In testing the factorial invariance of a measure across groups, the groups are often of
different sizes. Large imbalances in group size might affect the results of factorial invariance …

In Part 1 we discussed the nature of adolescence, and in Part 2 we have explored the
counselling needs of young people and the theoretical foundations of the proactive …

Objective: This study was designed to provide a representative description of the mental
health of youth accessing homelessness services in Canada. It is the most extensive survey …

Abstract The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health's School Connectedness
Scale (SCS) has been widely used in psychological, public health, and education research …

This book examines after-school programs in light of their explosive growth in recent years.
In the rush to mount programs, there is a danger of promoting weak ones of little value and …